Synthesis and biological characterization of amidopropenyl hydroxamates as histone deacetylase inhibitors for cancer treatment

Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry presents a "Symposium in Print on Tunneling in Chemical and Biological Reactions"

With new impact factors being announced, ChemViews takes a look at their calculation, controversy and usage.

"Gone is gone. There are no alternatives." - Interview with Koop Lammertsma, VU University, the Netherlands.

"It puzzles me why some chemists do not see chemistry as the big science." - Interview with Ben Daivis, University of Oxford, UK

An asymmetric total synthesis of the natural product erythro-8-O-4'-neolignan, machilin C, and its analog has been developed.

Unique blue fluorescent chlorophyll decomposition products in banana leaves not mere detoxification products

Building multifunctional chiral building blocks from materials like D-glutamic acid opens up synthetic routes to natural products.

The enantioselective synthesis of alkaloids, using a tricyclic (R)-phenylglycinol-derived lactam scaffold is reported.

The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program.